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The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature: Clothed in my Right Mind

The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature: Clothed in my Right Mind

Bryant, Jacqueline K.

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Series: Routledge Library Editions: African American Literature

Literary CriticismBlack American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1138389730
ISBN13: 9781138389731
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 28 2020
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in nineteenth century American literature. The book argues that older black woman portrayed in early black women's works differs significantly from the older black women portrayed in early white women's works. The foremother figure, then emerging in early black women's fiction revises the stereotypical mother figure in early white women's fiction. In the context of the mulatta heroine the foremother produces minimal language that, through an Afrocentric rhetoric, distinguishes her from the stereotypical mother and thus links her peripheral role and unusual behaviour to cultural continuity and radical uplift.

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